Take a listen to King Crimson’s “Frakture” from the “Starless and Bible Black” album.

Most of it is whole-tone scale, with many flurries of diminished chords - together with assorted mayhem.
I did learn it once, but never got to Fripp’s unbelievable speed and consistency.

A must listen for any ...

This will explain why Justin’s tuning method can never work. After that, it really isn’t worth digging deeper into his world.

https://islandguitarstudios.com/tuning- ... ml#methods

Great tips.
I feel I’ve got it now. Very excited.
I’m going to write a song about my experiences.
I’m going to call it “Writer’s Block Blues”.

Goes like this….

“Well I woke up this morning…
And I’ve got writer’s block.”

That’s as far as I got, but it’s looking better already!

In good working condition.
Will drive and collect.

Justin Guitar?
Tuning a guitar from just harmonics is basically not tuning the guitar.
If he doesn’t know that, then I would avoid.
The frets are your instrument. The strings can be tuned properly using one harmonic and a fretted note.
Usually a 12th fret harmonic, and the 7th fret of the string ...

“I woke up this morning,
And”.

That’s as far as I got.

Here’s one for you.
Common practice in the trade is to buy a car from auction with a stretched timing chain, then cut one of the wires from a Llambda sensor.
Reset the codes, and put it on the forecourt.
Someone will buy it, and sometime soon down the road they will get an engine management light ...

So what are you going to do on the next sequence, after exhausting your vocabulary?

The Royal College of Music Scales and Arpeggios grades 5-8 will give you classical left-hand fingering over generally 3-octaves.
This is a great place to start.
Get the whole book under your belt, then I would be wondering how you implement this improvisationally in a musical situation.

The whole premise of being an electric guitarist is to be in a constant state of flux, where things that excite you as a player can be taken onboard and correspond with how you present yourself to your world.
If you seek to ground yourself in more mundane exercise, then this has to bear fruition as ...

There must be millions of Fractal User-Presets for download.
Probably pen-drives on eBay with 30,000 patches for £9.99!
Plus the artist presets.
Plenty to wet your teeth with.
So long as you can tweak a little here and there, and know how to set the volume - the FM3 should be more than enough.
Only ...

Hopefully you managed to go onto bigger and better things after this. And channeled some of the trauma into an epic song (or even album) maybe?


The Nina Hagen job had gone.
I was in the band, but then they moved from their hotel, and never called again. Really horrible treatment. I hadn’t even ...

For the price of re-capping the Kustom’s power supply - you might as well buy a new 10W amp.

Not a good start when you can’t even speak English.

You could change the V1 12ax7 to a 12au7 or a 5751.
Or just buy a two-channel amp.

I do hope you find the guitar, and nail these sods, but it’s probably not likely.
Unless Fretboard club together and organise a sting operation for the scum.

When faced with collection and payment of an item, anything that isn’t PayPal or a major, fast online-transfers bank is to be refunded and ...

if you plug your git ( thats turned full up ) into your amp thats adjusted for normal volume
how much hiss is there? ( no pedals )
Q : out of interest how long have you been playing ?
you might like to try plugging your git into a mates amp to see if its working

I've taken it to a local music ...

Sounds like you were better off without them.


Well Olly.
It began well, and the drummer was incredibly good. An ex-name like me.
But any potential was certainly wasted, and the whole thing gradually began to implode.
The keyboard wife had an affair with a journalist of a local hippy rag ...

Much better to use the EQ pedal as a volume cut. Turn it off for solos.


Don’t know why I have never even considered using it this way round before.

I haven’t used individual pedals for some years now but I guess I could still try this way using my Fractal FM3


Well, it depends how you are ...

4/4 is Tempus Imperfectum. Plain C
2/2 is Alla Breve. C with vertical line.

:lol: :lol: Now that is a tale and a half :lol:

Did you get asked back for future gigs??


Well, I’d like to say we did a lucrative world tour of social clubs - sponsored by Vicks Sinex, Kleenex, and Tena for Men.
But sadly not. Tena hadn’t been invented yet, and I’m not going on-stage with ...

Yes. The difference is night and day.

I used Marshalls from ‘76-‘83.
Lab Series L5 comb ‘’83-88. Used 2 from ‘85 on.
Rack mounted the Lab Series pre-amps and used a Carvin FET900 power amp.
Added a Pro-Amplifiers VSQ valve pre-amp in 2000.
The same year added a Peavey Classic 50/50 valve power ...

True stories.

I had a bad cold for a while. Over the worst, but still bunged up.
We had a duo gig in Southend Social Club on a Sunday night.
Loads of grannies and oldies, all very polite.
Tiny stage with a pelmet running around the front.
3 songs in, and I looked up, only to see about 15 balloons ...

Much better to use the EQ pedal as a volume cut. Turn it off for solos.

What is the cab?
Is it worth the bother?
Consider buying a used cab complete with the speakers you want.
A Victory 4x12 with V30’s would be about £400.